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Thanks for straightening me out. I'll begin digging to locate my moral compass as soon as the ground around here thaws
Ah, but if you have to ig for it, then it must be a lower moral compass. Now, if you had it on a shelf in the closet, that would be a higher moral compass.
By the way, is there any truth to the rumor that a moral compass always points up?
I think HappyandMarried is actually a meter maid, and that's why his moral compass is so finely-tuned.
God knows we can't have outstanding parking fines! Next thing you know we'll have drug addicts and VCR thieves running for president!
See, I've got this crazy idea that there are things that matter, things that barely matter, and things that don't matter. You can parade around with your moral compass all day, but:
(a). Stealing a physical object from a person
(b). Neglecting your children
(c). Not paying a small municipal fee
(d). Becoming chemically addicted to a substance
are all completely different in my book, and should be treated as such. I've been screwed by municipalities enough to realize that paying fines is a giant gray area from a moral perspective. Perhaps you can argue something from a legal perspective or from a civic perspective, but I'm not losing sleep over it.
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That's bizarre. How was he able to take the bar exam? I know people who were getting ready to take the bar, but were prohibited because they had unpaid parking tickets. I knew one guy who went to college in So. Cal. and the Illinois bar wouldn't let him take the exam until he paid his ticket that he got during his first week of freshman year. He forgot he had the thing!
I forgot about a book at my former college that I had borrowed from the library and didn't return. I remember coming across it a few years after I had quit the school thinking "screw them, i'm not returning that, what can they do", well, a few years later I needed some transcripts from this school, and I found out exactly what they could do. I ended up paying for the book.
My little brother is still ignoring his letters about parking tickets from college, eventually it will catch up to him.
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In the typical "the rules don't apply to me, I'm a Democrat" fashion, it appears that Mr. Obama finally paid his outstanding parking tickets - from the 1980s!!!
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You mean the rules don't apply like selling weapons to an enemy state?
Or like breaking into a campaign office like common street thugs?
Oh, wait................THAT was the Republicans
Mr. Black Kettle, meet Mr. Black Pot
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I forgot about a book at my former college that I had borrowed from the library and didn't return. I remember coming across it a few years after I had quit the school thinking "screw them, i'm not returning that, what can they do", well, a few years later I needed some transcripts from this school, and I found out exactly what they could do. I ended up paying for the book.
My little brother is still ignoring his letters about parking tickets from college, eventually it will catch up to him.
See, if your moral compass was intact you would have sent the book back when you discovered the error and you wouldn't of had the problem later. . . It pays to have a working one. .
Oh please, you can't judge the man because he has unpaid parking tickets! Heck I have a few I haven't paid and I really don't intend to anytime in the near future. Most of the time I just throw the ticket away.
I guess I have low moral standards and should probably face execution by a firing squad. I've always said I wanted to go out with a bang.
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I guess I have low moral standards and should probably face execution by a firing squad. I've always said I wanted to go out with a bang.
Actually, that probably qualifies you to run for office on either side of the aisle
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